Meme-ity Meme Meme Meme
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lenora_roseI'm convinced memes are entirely there to help us fill journal entries when nothing whatever exciting is happening in our lives. Hmm... Day job quiet. Wrong kind of quiet. I've been watching more closely since we had two blatant Worker's Rights violations in the same day (Around the second week of December), one of which I suspect was done before. Never mind the ongoing little pushes and nudges to get people to work more, and for less pay, than they actually earned. Somehow, they never happen to me, just like other weird things past managers did never seemed to happen to me. (People who like to push can usually tell exactly who will push back.) Somehow, this is supposed to mean they shouldn't bother me. ***Bristle***
Nothing new has happened, thankfully, and nobody's holiday was messed with, and the ones that happened all together were dealt with and fixed. In fact, since over the year we've been pushing to improve health and safety regs to qualify for one of the big food industry things, I'd say things are improving on some fronts - making the fronts where they aren't stand out more. But this, far more than anything to do with the work I do, has been making me much happier about the thought of leaving this job someday.
I have fantasies of picking up copies of the Employment Standards books and passing them out downstairs like candy. Except they'd be candy nobody would really want, even those who should learn them.
(This all came into my brain and out my fingers now because between putting in the mem parts of this entry and writing this intro, I've been talking to the co-worker who's taken it on herself to deal with some of these things. But is underpaid and not given enough time off, or has her time off cancelled out from under her because "we need you for...".)
Anyhow. Memes.
None of the taste and preference ones are exhaustive, by any means. And some of these were borrowed from different variations on the meme, or off randomly newly invented questions others used.
Four jobs I've had: Retail worker in an Inuit art store, Roti-maker (At the back of a Caribbean fast-food place), Video Store clerk, various kinds of office clerks.
Four movies I could see over and over: Spirited Away (Subtitled)*, The Secret of Roan Inish, Pleasantville, Much Ado About Nothing
Four places I've lived: Sherwood Park, AB, North Kildonan/Transcona (several locations Both sides of the border), Winnipeg, MB**, West End (Sargent Ave.), Winnipeg, MB**,Osborne Village, Winnipeg, MB**
Four TV shows I love to watch: The Muppet Show, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Barney Miller
Four vacation spots I've been to: Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Various places in the vicinity of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Four websites I visit daily: Daily is a problem. Making Light, Livejournal (which encompasses so many individual peoples' blogs, some of which almost deserve their own emphasis). Slacktivist, a bit less than daily. Lurking at the Rumour Mill only about once every week or two, about equal with Strange Horizons.
Four foods I love: Fresh strawberries picked in June from a local farm. Real pineapple (IE, picked ripe in a place it grows naturally, eaten same day). The end pieces of Philadelphia rolls. A skim-milk white-chocolate latte with just enough whipped cream for flavour, and "too much" cinnamon sprinkled on top.
Four places I'd rather be: Fiji; almost any part of it I've seen. New Zealand, ditto. Somewhere on (Or just offshore of…) a near-empty beach, Oceanside or lakeside, on a warm day, with moderate but not dangerous waves. Working on a computer where I'm in the midst of a story in full steam inspiration, with the right music beside me.
Four records I could not live without: Kate Rusby - Hourglass, Heather Dale - The Road to Santiago, Peter Gabriel - Us, Garmarna - Vengeance
Four Books I reread regularly: I could almost say "Any work by…" for all these authors, but these specific books kind of nudge themselves out more often. Diana Wynne Jones – Fire and Hemlock, Robin McKinley – Rose Daughter, Terry Pratchett – Night Watch, Neil Gaiman - Sandman: Brief Lives
Four Artists that are Significant to me: Kinuko Craft, Leonardo DaVinci, Vermeer, Leo & Diane Dillon
*I could have put my Neighbour Totoro here just as easily. There's a strange and deliberate then-and-now effect to the two movies together.
** The thing about Winnipeg is, it being one of those cities made up of several smaller towns come together, people tend to live in one neighbourhood area all their lives, and rarely break out for long even into other parts of the city. The neighbourhood becomes their actual hometown.
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So near, and yet so far. I like that the 3 obvious choices are all 100%, but journalism misses the mark on the writing thing ever so slightly. Both English and Art would have been better. (Says the Art School Grad whose main other courses were literature and film studies)
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Other people got cool answers like "Procrastinate more", or "Try to take over the world". Mine is... well, it's something that might actually be fun, and not as twisted as I anticipated.
Nothing new has happened, thankfully, and nobody's holiday was messed with, and the ones that happened all together were dealt with and fixed. In fact, since over the year we've been pushing to improve health and safety regs to qualify for one of the big food industry things, I'd say things are improving on some fronts - making the fronts where they aren't stand out more. But this, far more than anything to do with the work I do, has been making me much happier about the thought of leaving this job someday.
I have fantasies of picking up copies of the Employment Standards books and passing them out downstairs like candy. Except they'd be candy nobody would really want, even those who should learn them.
(This all came into my brain and out my fingers now because between putting in the mem parts of this entry and writing this intro, I've been talking to the co-worker who's taken it on herself to deal with some of these things. But is underpaid and not given enough time off, or has her time off cancelled out from under her because "we need you for...".)
Anyhow. Memes.
None of the taste and preference ones are exhaustive, by any means. And some of these were borrowed from different variations on the meme, or off randomly newly invented questions others used.
Four jobs I've had: Retail worker in an Inuit art store, Roti-maker (At the back of a Caribbean fast-food place), Video Store clerk, various kinds of office clerks.
Four movies I could see over and over: Spirited Away (Subtitled)*, The Secret of Roan Inish, Pleasantville, Much Ado About Nothing
Four places I've lived: Sherwood Park, AB, North Kildonan/Transcona (several locations Both sides of the border), Winnipeg, MB**, West End (Sargent Ave.), Winnipeg, MB**,Osborne Village, Winnipeg, MB**
Four TV shows I love to watch: The Muppet Show, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Barney Miller
Four vacation spots I've been to: Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Various places in the vicinity of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Four websites I visit daily: Daily is a problem. Making Light, Livejournal (which encompasses so many individual peoples' blogs, some of which almost deserve their own emphasis). Slacktivist, a bit less than daily. Lurking at the Rumour Mill only about once every week or two, about equal with Strange Horizons.
Four foods I love: Fresh strawberries picked in June from a local farm. Real pineapple (IE, picked ripe in a place it grows naturally, eaten same day). The end pieces of Philadelphia rolls. A skim-milk white-chocolate latte with just enough whipped cream for flavour, and "too much" cinnamon sprinkled on top.
Four places I'd rather be: Fiji; almost any part of it I've seen. New Zealand, ditto. Somewhere on (Or just offshore of…) a near-empty beach, Oceanside or lakeside, on a warm day, with moderate but not dangerous waves. Working on a computer where I'm in the midst of a story in full steam inspiration, with the right music beside me.
Four records I could not live without: Kate Rusby - Hourglass, Heather Dale - The Road to Santiago, Peter Gabriel - Us, Garmarna - Vengeance
Four Books I reread regularly: I could almost say "Any work by…" for all these authors, but these specific books kind of nudge themselves out more often. Diana Wynne Jones – Fire and Hemlock, Robin McKinley – Rose Daughter, Terry Pratchett – Night Watch, Neil Gaiman - Sandman: Brief Lives
Four Artists that are Significant to me: Kinuko Craft, Leonardo DaVinci, Vermeer, Leo & Diane Dillon
*I could have put my Neighbour Totoro here just as easily. There's a strange and deliberate then-and-now effect to the two movies together.
** The thing about Winnipeg is, it being one of those cities made up of several smaller towns come together, people tend to live in one neighbourhood area all their lives, and rarely break out for long even into other parts of the city. The neighbourhood becomes their actual hometown.
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So near, and yet so far. I like that the 3 obvious choices are all 100%, but journalism misses the mark on the writing thing ever so slightly. Both English and Art would have been better. (Says the Art School Grad whose main other courses were literature and film studies)
You scored as Journalism. You are an aspiring journalist, and you should major in journalism! Like me, you are passionate about writing and expressing yourself, and you want the world to understand your beliefs through writing.
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Other people got cool answers like "Procrastinate more", or "Try to take over the world". Mine is... well, it's something that might actually be fun, and not as twisted as I anticipated.
In the year 2006 I resolve to: |
